Lani Adeoye brings her Nigerian heritage and global perspective to a West African crafts display at Salone del Mobile.

The trail, called The Tolkien Triangle, will include two new sculptures in Roos, between Hornsea and Withernsea. One of the hand-carved oak statues will be of Tolkien's wife, Edith, depicting a ...

The country was a founding member of the UN and nowadays consists of land consolidated during the 19th and 20th centuries as imperial European powers carved up Africa. Consequently, the region ...

The ǀxam language has been carved into a new building at Rhodes House to ... further in line with reflections on the links between ǀxam, on the one hand, and other southern African languages (Nǀuu, ...

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...

France’s self-professed last sculpture foundry has weighed into a row over whether the US should return the Statue of Liberty to its country of origin by proposing to build a new one out of ...

Many of the artist’s works evoke his African-American identity and the broader struggle for civil rights, from sculptures incorporating fire hoses, to events organized around soul food, and choral ...

The White House secretary has replied to the French politician who demanded the Statue of Liberty be returned 'home'. After almost 140 years overlooking New York City, centre-left politician Raphael ...

But apparently you despise her," French politician Raphaël Glucksmann said of the national monument Getty The White House has no plans to return the Statue of Liberty to France. “Absolutely not ...

Six key breeding areas are to be safeguarded to help save the African penguin, following a landmark court order in South Africa. Last year scientists warned that the species was declining by ...

The bronze statue of Molly Malone has become discoloured by people touching it Dublin's Molly Malone statue should be protected to prevent members of the public from "violating" it by groping the ...